4 Pipa Village: Love Beach or Beach of the Drowned
This popular beach is called Praia do Amor, the Love Beach. The water sometimes lines up like the top of a heart.
Note the amazing, surrounding cliff plateau, about 100 feet above sea level.
Love Beach has a second name: Praia dos Afogados, the Beach of the Drowned. Swimmers, particularly surfers, have lost their lives trying to enjoy the waves of this beach.
Why do surfers drown in this beach? Tourists, visiting surfers, don’t know the secrets of the rocks and the currents. Visitors swim and surf near rocks and may fall on top of the rocks.
Low tides show rocks that are invisible during high tides.
Visiting surfers also fight against the ocean currents. They get tired and are thrown against rocks. Such water movements tend to take people to beaches toward the North. Surfers end up safely in other beaches if they go along with the local, ocean currents.
Strong waves are noted on the North side of Love Beach. The rock, Pedra da Pipa, is seen at the South end. It looks like the photographer was at the Beach of the Drowned really. Forceful waves moving toward rocks.
Strong waves, rocks, and channel currents. The waves may not be very high, but surfers have been exposed to high volume and power.
Love beach is surrounded by tall cliffs. A track is available to go down. A fall, however, may be disastrous. A careful, safe walk is recommended.
Another alternative to reach Love Beach is a beach way full of rocks.
A low tide followed by a high tide view of the rocks were photographed from the top of a dangerous cliff location.
This site has several alternatives to view sunrises over the Atlantic-ocean crossed by the caravel.
Imagine this little boat crossing such a large ocean.
Sunrise to the South looking toward Love Beach, followed by sunset to the North, toward Pipa’s Central Beach.
What a twisted earth! Sunrise to sunset South to North? Not East to West? May be the coast here is Southeast to Northwest.
it is time to sail North again.
Is the next beach easy to land, or will we have problems with the ocean and the sand?